Proposals for State Financing of Scientific Activity in Ukraine

Abstract

The problems of financing scientific activity are devoted in the paper. The main focus in the paper is paid to the substantiation of the amount of funding for science depending on the types of entities` economic activity. The paper analyzes the scientific works of domestic researchers on the identified problems and formulates a conclusion about the need for more detailed research by formulating scientific recommendations for determining the amount of funding for scientific activities. Based on the results of the analysis of official information characterizing the financing of scientific activity, the paper calculates the indicators that are proposed to be used to justify the volume of state funding of scientific research by type of economic activity of economic entities. Based on a comparison of indicators with their values in Ukraine as a whole, the paper identifies indices that characterize the staffing of scientific activities, innovative developments and raising funds from international organizations. It is proposed to use these indices as components of an integrated indicator of research funding. To identify the most promising types of economic activity of economic entities in the paper, their ranking is carried out depending on the value of the integrated indicator of funding for scientific activities. The results of the ranking showed that the most promising area of activity is scientific, professional and technical activities, which is quite logical and is explained by the industry specifics of this area. Also, rather high values of the integrated indicator have such areas as: education, processing industry and real estate transactions. Agriculture and transport are among the least promising. The integrated indicator of financing of scientific activity in work is offered to be used as a criterion of distribution of the state means directed on financing of scientific researches. The results of this paper may be supplemented and improved in the event of changes in the composition of official information relating to scientific activities.